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		<title>The Needs, the Goals, and the Commitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[            The most important aspect of any management opportunity is that the situation is always changing and therefore the motivations of employees and their commitment level changes as well. Overall, basic theories can apply but because no situation is black and white, there is no chart or textbook anywhere that can describe the exact method [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=171&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership’s definition is as vague as the concept of love, power, or hope.  Each has a definition but to each person who seeks these out, their own context changes the definition to suit them.  Does a leader have specific characteristics that make them successful or does a specific situation form the relationship with the leader?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=168&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Points in Labor&#8217;s History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The development of the labor movement can be seen as a cause and effect relationship due to its cyclical nature where a seemingly low impact event can have an incredible long term effect and alter the course.  Turning points have come from government acts and interference to unseen economic influences to social shifts in opinions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=163&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Systems Transition in Early America and the Search for the American Dream &#8211; Christopher Lane Drew</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The establishment of labor practices in early 19th century America was dependent on the population’s culture and the subsequent beliefs that they held in relation to the supply of labor to work.  Land was in abundance but the labor to work it fell significantly short and it was the promise of economic growth and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=153&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plantation Work Ethic &#8211; Christopher Lane Drew</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                The transition between work systems after emancipation resulted in a prolonged conflict that reinforced the traditional work ethic that resulted from the slave labor system.  Eugene Genovese in “Plantation Work Ethic”, described a system that the new system only “got enough work out of their slaves to make the system pay at a level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=151&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wage Slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When looking at “Journeymen Tailors Protest Wage Slavery, 1836” and “Amelia, a Woman Worker, Protest Lowell Wage Slavery, 1845”, it is important to notice that not only does the labor movements happening in the U.S. at the time include the south but it also includes the factory system on a whole while also being a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=148&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                Sometimes, means exist for countering negative effects in the imbalances of power with values such as setting primary goals, equalizing the power resources, and realizing power.  These attributes are granted by the group and are responsible for the exercise and renewal of power which are given as a way to level imbalances and their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=142&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[        When seeking a resolution to conflict in today’s professional and social climates, it is common for the introduction of a 3rd party to be present in seeking a fair and amicable solution for all parties involved.  Folger, Poole, and Stutman illustrate several examples of common 3rd party intervention from judges and management consultants to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=135&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[        googlee57f57aa668b293d.html        The public relations firm is suffering profitability, losing minor but important accounts, stemming from two issues surrounding the conflict within project groups, communication being stifled from peer conflict and claims of discrimination.   The quality of the product, which in the past has relied on the flow of ideas within the groups, has diminished and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=124&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Void of Citizenship in the Corporate Hierarchy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the prominence of subordinates being encouraged to be active representatives of their respective corporate hierarchy in today’s culture, it is important for management to remember to include even the workers who are indirectly employed.  Temporary Staffing Firms represent a growing portion, increasing to 5% of the entire labor population since 1983, of the labor employed in the U.S. due to the lower cost and avoiding the need for providing benefits for the workers.  Whether this difference in treatment is due to temporary services being viewed as less than contributors and more as stop gap staff, or the more sinister involuntary discrimination, the vast majority of temp services employ immigrants, the involvement of these people to the corporate climate is still an important contribution<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=managementintheory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5789148&amp;post=93&amp;subd=managementintheory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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